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		hayksaakian on Dec 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Paten... I agree with the general notion that tech patents are too abstract, but you're right, its just too convenient for companies that don't hold many software patents to agree. Now if a company with many software patents got behind this brief, I'd have more faith in the industry's desire to get rid of such patents.

grabastic on Dec 10, 2012 [–]

Google has over 15,000 patents from their acquisition of Motorola mobile.

hayksaakian on Dec 10, 2012 | [–]

Mostly very specific wireless hardware patents, am I wrong?

DannyBee on Dec 10, 2012 | | [–]

To put it simply: Yes

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